P-ANCA Systemic Vasculitis Induced by Brucellosis in an Elderly Male Patient by Mohammed Cheikh, Abdulrahman Kabli, Esraa Sendi, Hani Almoallim

“…All symptoms improved from the third month of follow-up except weakness from peripheral neuropathy with normalization of P-ANCA titer. …”
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Surgical Excision with Forehead Flap as Single Modality Treatment for Basal Cell Cancer of Central Face: Single Institutional Experience of 50 Cases by Jagdeep Rao, Harsh Deora

“…The WHO has defined it as “a locally invasive, slowly spreading tumor which rarely metastasizes, arising in the epidermis or hair follicles and in which the peripheral cells usually simulate the basal cells of the epidermis.” …”
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Stiff Substrates Enhance Endothelial Oxidative Stress in Response to Protein Kinase C Activation by Rebecca Lownes Urbano, Swathi Swaminathan, Alisa Morss Clyne

“…Finally, endothelial cells in aortae from elastin haploinsufficient mice (Eln+/-), which were stiffer than aortae from wild-type mice, showed decreased VE-cadherin colocalization with peripheral actin following PMA treatment. These data suggest that oxidative stress may be enhanced in endothelial cells in stiffer vessels, which could contribute to the association between arterial stiffness and cardiovascular disease.…”
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Microangiopathic Hemolytic Anemia: A Rare Complication of Acute Pancreatitis by Syedda Ayesha, Masood Muhammad Karim, Maria Ali, Abdul Hadi Shahid, Salman Naseem Adil

“…Clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion in patients with acute pancreatitis who present with anemia, thrombocytopenia, and schistocytes on peripheral smears, even in the absence of end-organ injuries and with normal ADAMTS13 activity. …”
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A Critical Review of Archaeology and History of Third Millennium Iran by Hasan Basafa, Mohammad Sadeghdavari

“…On the other hand, the book has weaknesses in translation, editing and matching of specialized terminology, the use of archaeological resources, and archaeological fundamentals of the peripheral regions of Iranian Plateau.…”
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Vulvar Malignancy in Neurofibromatosis Syndrome by Angela Musella, Innocenza Palaia, Lavinia Domenici, Assunta Casorelli, Angela Martoccia, Pierluigi Benedetti Panici

“…Type 1 neurofibromatosis (NF1) is a dominantly inherited neurologic disorder that affects primarily the skin, bones, and peripheral nervous system. It may be associated with a variety of clinical manifestations including cafe-au-lait spots, skinfold freckling, Lisch nodules, and visceral neurofibromas. …”
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Protocol for a patient-derived preclinical platform to model tumor-immune interactions and evaluate therapeutic efficacy by Wen-Hsin Chang, Andrew I. Chin, Ching-Hsien Chen

“…We outline steps for isolating human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), preparing patient-derived precision-cut tumor slices (PCTSs), cryopreserving the samples, and setting up the co-culture system. …”
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Hip Fracture Mortality: Is It Affected by Anesthesia Techniques? by Saffet Karaca, Egemen Ayhan, Hayrettin Kesmezacar, Omer Uysal

“…We hypothesized that combined peripheral nerve block (CPNB) technique might reduce mortality in hip fracture patients with the advantage of preserved cardiovascular stability. …”
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Goldenhar Syndrome Associated with Extensive Arterial Malformations by Renee Frances Modica, L. Daphna Yasova Barbeau, Jennifer Co-Vu, Richard D. Beegle, Charles A. Williams

“…Given a physical exam devoid of rheumatologic findings, only weakly positive autoantibodies, normal inflammatory markers, and presence of the coronary artery dilation, the peripheral artery narrowings were not thought to be vasculitic. …”
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The Effects of Fetal Gender on Serum Human Chorionic Gonadotropin and Testosterone in Normotensive and Preeclamptic Pregnancies by Nahid Lorzadeh, Sirous Kazemirad

“…Human chorionic gonadotropin and total testosterone were measured in maternal peripheral blood. Data analyzed by SPSS software. Results. …”
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Neuroinflammation and iron metabolism after intracerebral hemorrhage: a glial cell perspective by Jia-Jun Ju, Li-Hua Hang, Li-Hua Hang

“…Following the rupture of cerebral blood vessels, blood metabolites activate resident immune cells such as microglia and astrocytes, and infiltrate peripheral immune cells, leading to the release of a series of inflammatory mediators. …”
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Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy-Related Disease-Causing Genes and Norrin/β-Catenin Signal Pathway: Structure, Function, and Mutation Spectrums by Hongtao Xiao, Yuna Tong, Yuxuan Zhu, Min Peng

“…Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) is a hereditary ocular disorder characterized by incomplete vascularization/abnormality of peripheral retina. Four of the identified disease-causing genes of FEVR were NDP, FZD4, LRP5, and TSPAN12, the protein coded by which were the components of the Norrin/β-catenin signal pathway. …”
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The role of phosphodiesterase 4B in IL-8/LTB4-induced human neutrophil chemotaxis evaluated with a phosphodiesterase 4B inhibitor by Suzuki Osamu, Goto Taiji, Yoshino Toshiharu, Nakamura Satoshi, Maeda Hiroaki

“…In this study, the inhibitory effects of a phosphodiesterase 4B (PDE4B)- selective inhibitor (compound A) and subtype non-selective PDE4 inhibitors (roflumilast and cilomilast) were evaluated in human peripheral blood cells. Compound A, roflumilast and cilomilast in a similar manner inhibited TNF-α production by LPS-stimulated human mononuclear cells. …”
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Recombining Features of Frequency Domain and Location for Machine Recognition of Sign Language by Sirous Tannaz

“…Algorithm of the distances between the border contour points and the center of gravity shows how the points are placed on the peripheral curve of the hand in relation to each other and to the center of gravity, and therefore provides suitable structural information for describing states. …”
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Cytokines and Chemokines at the Crossroads of Neuroinflammation, Neurodegeneration, and Neuropathic Pain by Geeta Ramesh, Andrew G. MacLean, Mario T. Philipp

“…The dysregulation of cytokines and chemokines is a central feature in the development of neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and demyelination both in the central and peripheral nervous systems and in conditions of neuropathic pain. …”
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35 m Vertical Free Fall: How Impact Surface Influences Survival by C. Ehrnthaller, F. Gebhard

“…Following extubation on day 8 after trauma the patient did not show any peripheral neurological deficits but cerebral affection with a general slowdown. …”
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The Role of the Immune System in Huntington’s Disease by Gisa Ellrichmann, Christiane Reick, Carsten Saft, Ralf A. Linker

“…These data underline an increasing interest in the peripheral immune system for pathomechanisms of HD. …”
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Combination of High-Dose Intravenous Immunoglobulins and Itraconozole in Treating Chronic Mycotic Demyelinating Optic Neuritis by Andrew W. Campbell, Ebere C. Anyanwu, Aristo Vojdani

“…Most of the neurological and immunologic abnormalities associated with toxic mold mycotoxins are very difficult to treat successfully, especially neural demyelination of the central and peripheral nervous systems. This paper presents the case of a 42-year-old white female, in whom chronic demyelinating optic neuritis with persistent visual defects due to chronic exposure to toxic molds was diagnosed at the age of 34 years. …”
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The Rise of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Glia Models of Neuroinflammation by Srishti Kala, Andrew G. Strutz, Moriah E. Katt

“…It encompasses a phenotype shift to a proinflammatory state, the release of cytokines, the recruitment of peripheral immune cells, and a wide variety of other processes. …”
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Leukocyte Production of Inflammatory Mediators Is Inhibited by the Antioxidants Phloretin, Silymarin, Hesperetin, and Resveratrol by Jezrom B. Fordham, Afsar Raza Naqvi, Salvador Nares

“…In this study, we investigated the antioxidants Phloretin, Silymarin, Hesperetin, and Resveratrol to ascertain whether they altered the production of inflammatory mediators by innately-activated leukocytes. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were stimulated with lipopolysaccharide purified from Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, and the production of cytokines, chemokines, and differentiation factors was assayed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, cytometric bead array, and RT-PCR. …”
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